Welch Market Book
Image courtesy of the Bristol Record Office ref FM/We/1/ 1760-1844
This book contains the names of the various Welsh traders (mostly women) who traded on the Welsh Back in Bristol in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These traders came by small boats or trows from Wales with chickens, fish, and dairy produce which they then sold in the city.
Content generated during research for the paperback book 'Bristol: Ethnic Monorities and the City 1000-2001' (ISBN 13 : 978-1-86077-477-5 ) for the England's Past for Everyone series
